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Mayor Bloomberg is a man with a van plan
Thursday, July 15, 2010 2:00
Published: Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 1:04 AM Updated: Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 10:13 AM STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Bus route to work canceled? You may be able to share a van with other Staten Islanders. The city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) will be testing a new van-sharing service in the outer boroughs to [...]
Rell announces plan to expand parking at train station
Saturday, May 1, 2010 17:00
Copy and paste below into your page: (close this pane) STAMFORD On Thursday afternoon, Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced that plans are in the works to more than double the number of parking spaces at the city train station at South State Street and Washington Boulevard. Currently 1,200 spaces are available in the parking structure [...]
MTA approves NYC bus, subway cuts | – SILive.com | NYC Subway Map
Friday, April 30, 2010 10:30
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — already transit-starved Staten Island bus riders will have even fewer options starting in June, after the MTA approved its package of service cuts Wednesday, as part of a measure to save the authority $93 million a year. Some of the cuts to local and express bus service were averted or revised [...]
LIRR to get new, lighter diesel trains
Thursday, April 29, 2010 20:00
Associated Press – April 29, 2010 6:05 AM ET NEW YORK (AP) – about a dozen new, smaller diesel trains have been approved for the Long Island Rail Road. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority gave the green to spend $78 million to buy the trains for LIRR branches served by diesel engines. But commuters will have [...]
Know It All
Saturday, April 24, 2010 15:30
America’s Interstate Highway system was established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Interstate Highway system requires that one mile in every five miles must be straight. The straight sections can be used as airstrips in a time of war or other emergencies. Odd numbered interstate highways run north-south. even numbered highways run east-west. The longest [...]
MTA not amused by spoof service announcement posters | NYC Subway News
Friday, April 9, 2010 16:00
57 m ago By Heather Haddon Fake subway service alert posters that take jabs at the MTA’s plans to cut service are no laughing matter, the agency said Tuesday. The orange posters replicate the NYC Transit signs down to the Helvetica font and “GREED” typed out in circular train letters. “We are making service cuts [...]
New Improv Everywhere: Frozen Grand Central
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 21:00
On a cold Saturday in New York City, the world’s largest train station came to a sudden halt. over 200 Improv Everywhere Agents froze in place at the exact same second for five minutes in the Main Concourse of Grand Central Station. over 500,000 people rush through Grand Central every day, but today, things slowed [...]
Grand Central Station: 207 Frozen People
Monday, April 5, 2010 5:30
Between the 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in new York City you will find the world largest and very busy train station, the Grand Central Station. over 500,000 people rush through Grand Central every day and nothing seem to slow them down. Except for one Saturday in January ‘08, commuters and tourists [...]
High Cost of No Transit
Sunday, April 4, 2010 15:30
We’re thrilled to see the anti-MTA payroll tax movement picking up steam here on the East End. of all the insults taxpayers and residents of this part of the world have suffered in recent years, perhaps none makes our blood boil quite like this ridiculous payroll tax. For the uninitiated, this is a tax that [...]
